Writeable directory on your computer. Created if not existent.
DEFAULT: "DWDdata" at your current getwd()

browse

Integer specifying whether and how to open repository via browseURL.
0 for regular file download.
1 to open base1.
2 to open base1/base2).
If base= 1 or 2, no dir is created and no download performed. DEFAULT: 0

meta

Integer specifying whether to get metadata instead of actual data.
0 for regular file.
1 for meta data of all stations
(meta is automatically set to 1 if file ends in ".txt".
Column widths for read.fwf are computed internally).
2 for a list of the available files (requires RCurl to be installed.
If meta=2, file="" is possible, as it is ignored anyways).
DEFAULT: 0

read

Read the file with readDWD?
If FALSE, only download is performed. DEFAULT: TRUE

format

Format used in strptime to convert date/time column,
see readDWD. DEFAULT: NA

quiet

Suppress message about directory? DEFAULT: FALSE

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Further arguments currently ignored

Value

data.frame of the desired dataset (returned by readDWD if meta=0),
presuming downloading and processing were successfull.
Alternatively, links that were opened if browse!=0.